The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-30
FARM, GARDEN & HOME,

Fowls will eat great deal of gran
ulated charcoal. As preventive of
disease IL is invaluable.
Egg shells crushed and shaken in
glass bottles half filed with water will |
clean them quickly.
A mixture OF mari, wood ashes and |
rich earth makes an excellent manure
for young trees. No animal manure
should be used unless it be completely
decomposed.
The shell lime, which is much cheap
or than stone lime, is excellent for ag-
ricutural purposes, and the best time
to apply it is when the land has been
plowed and old sod turned under
Apound OF coppcras. costing cents,
in bucket OF water, sprinkled from a
watering-pot in the pigpen, will pro.
vide cheap and excellent disinfectant
and will also largely assist in prevent
ing disease.
Cultivating the beets should still be
done, as they will continue to grow un-
til the frost shall appear. Beets are
relished by all classes of stock 10 the
winter, and plenty of them should be
stored away. Carrots should also re-
ceive attention.
The breaking of glass jars by hot
fruit can be avoided in two ways: l.
BY folding wet towel and putting it
under the jar while it is being filed.
2. BY putting solid silver spoon in
the jar before pouring in any of the
hot fruit.
Tie white and brown Leghorn fowls
begin to lay when only five months
old. They are non-setters, lay white
eggs, and rank very high as egg pro-
ducers They are, however, rather
small in size, and do not answer as
we'll for market as do the larger breeds.
Finely chopped clover hay moisten-
ed with water that has been slightly
salted and sprinkled with corn meal,
makes an excellent food tor old stock
that cannot well masticate hay. 1t
should be fed in connection with mix
cd ground grain, also with small al
lowance of linseed meal
Those who feed grain, in addition to
grass, and feed it intelligently 80 far
as we have ever heard them give an
opinion, believe that it pays. One
prominent feeder says that he finds
that it requires only half as much grain
to fatten an animal on grass as it does
to fatten it in the winter on dry food.
Cut up carefully two large tender
chickens, and fry in butter iu a sauce
pan when brown, skim off most of the
butter, add two finely chopped onions
fried in the same gravy seed and skin
eight or nine tomatoes, cut in slices
and add to the fowls, also half green
pepper finely chopped, teacup of thick
carefully Drowned gravy and the same
quantity of beef broth season and let
it all boil slowly for half an hour, and
serve with plain boiled rice in a sepa-
rate dish.
To can grapes, pick grapes from
stems, taking only the perfect ones,
and wash and spread them on a table
on which you have previously put
table-cloth. Leave until dry. When
dry fill the cans. Then place on stove
to boil one pound sugar aud one cup
ful OF water to every quart of grapes.
When boiling fill up the cans with the
hot liquid. Before sealing leave stand
about ten minutes and fill up again, as
they will have settled. Be sure to
have damp cloth around the bottle
when filling. Will be fit for use in
six weeks.
A pretty arrangement for holding
letters is made of wide-brimmed sun
hats. They cost 25 cents, perhaps, and
may be used after having been worn
one summer. If they are plain, en-
broider vine of daises, butercups or
poppies with coarse wool and long
stitches. Effect is what is wanted, not
fine work. Line the entire inside with
bright fix or satin shirred fold togeth-
er and tie with big bow and ends and
hand near the desk, that the letter may
be thrown into it without any trouble.
If too much trouble to embroider, tie
bunch Of wheat heads or dried grasses
with bag of ribbon or bunch of
peacock feathers.
A newly patented composition for
the removal and erasure of writing
inks and writing fluids from paper,
cloth and all other substances which
writing fluids and inks may come in
contact with, without injury to the pa
per or other substances, consists Of the
fnlln snnraI,a1ta. r
water, four ounces of citric acid, twelve
TO sixteen ounces of strong solution of
borax, and three quarters of a pound
of chloride of lime. In preparing the
composition two quarts of water which
had heenspreviously boiled and cooled
are taken. -Four ounces of citric acid
added, after the acid has been dissolved
six or eight ounces of strong strain
ed solution of borax are added, after
which the whole may be put in bot
tie or suitable Observation-Disclosures
ttrers' Gazette.
There is little doubt that the pro-
duction of eggs may be largely increas-
ed by q systematic scientific plan of
feeding, and the average poultry keep
er should give this matter good deal
OF study and attention. The scientific
part of it need not trighten any one
who is willing to read, study and put
into practice what they learn. Those
who are recognized authorities assert
that the egg product of a hen in her
prime is about three times her own
weight yearly, and in view of this fact
the Importance of supplying her with
food rich in all the elements that make
the egg is at once apparent. An egg
contains all the elements Of a living
chick, flesh, bone, sinew, blood and
feather, besides the shell matter, which
is mostly lime. The principle elements
in the egg are sulphur, oil, phosphorus
lime and nitrogen, The food that is
given the hen should contain all the